Armenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that is left is precious blood that will give birth to a heroic generation. A nation that does not want to die, does not die.
ANATOLE FRANCESuffering — how divine it is, how misunderstood! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
More Anatole France Quotes
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Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.
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For the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that shall have no end.
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Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
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What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance?
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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t.
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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He would not stoop even to pick up the old manuscript I am going to seek with so much trouble and fatigue. And in truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.
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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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As to the kind of truth one finds in books, it is a truth that enables us sometimes to discern what things are not, without ever enabling us to discover what they are.
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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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